Advertisement

24 March 2013 at 3:55pm

Bronze age settlement sells for £40,000

With the average price of a house in the south west approaching £200,000 pounds, the idea of an entire village of 80 homes in 144 acres of beautiful countryside for less than £40,000 has to be too good to be true.

That's how much a Bronze Age settlement in the middle of Bodmin Moor changed hands for a few days ago. John Andrews reports on an extraordinary piece of our ancient history.